The Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School will host its annual Pauli Murray/Nannie Helen Burroughs Lecture Series on Women & Religion. The series features women theologians and religious scholars whose work and ministry emphasize the critical intersections of race, gender, and class, as they relate to the transformative uplift of church and society.

This year, the lecturer for the Pauli Murray & Nannie Helen Burroughs Lecture will be Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, Ph.D. 

• Guest Speaker

  Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones (she/her) is assistant professor of theology and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, M.A. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Duke Divinity School, she received her Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University in 2016 with a Certificate in Feminist Theory. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the program in Christian theology and ethics.

  Professor Adkins-Jones is finalizing her first monograph project, Immaculate Misconceptions: Black Mariology, Freedom, and Fugitivity, a theological account of the rise of the global sex trade. She is at work on a second project, See No Evil: A Theology of Black Life, a theological account of technology and anti-Blackness. Her scholarly work has been published in several academic journals. 

  Outside of academia, Professor Adkins-Jones is an ordained Baptist minister who frequently preaches and teaches around the country and brings a pastoral sensibility to her work centering on social justice. She is a practicing birth worker, a trained iconographer, and has a career background in UX copywriting and design. A ‘displaced Southerner,’ she joyfully builds community and hospitality with her family in Newark, N.J.